Lady J Huston Groove Me Baby Earwig/Unisun Productions Lady J Huston (pronounced like the city Houston) is a well-decorated though sparsely recorded woman who sings, writes, plays trumpet and flugelhorn, arranges, and produces. She has a Music Theory/Composition major from Howard University and at one point was the musical director for Albert King’s band. Her […]
Pat McDougall In the Key of Sorry Self-released Keyboardist, vocalist, and masterful songwriter Pat McDougall teams with co-producer Jimi Bott for his dozen originals on In the Key of Sorry. McDougall impresses this writer as the best blues lyricist today apart from Derrick Procell. Yes, McDougall has a gift for songwriting, especially in breakup songs, […]
Lil’ Jimmy Reed with Ben Levin Back to Baton Rouge NOLA Blue Pianist Ben Levin cut his fifth album last year while still attending his hometown University of Cincinnati. Guests on Take Your Time included Chicago blues luminaries Lil’ Ed Williams, Bob Stroger, and Rockin’ Johnny Burgin. Lil’ Jimmy Reed, one of the elder statesmen […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Deb Callahan Philly’s blues and soul drenched singer and songwriter Deb Callahan recently celebrated the March 2023 release of her 6th studio album “Backbone”! The album consists of 12 songs including 10 original new tunes and recently charted #2 for the Roots Music Report Top 50 […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #194 with his Guest Billy the Kid and the Regulators Kings Of Cool Good To Be Alive Girlschool/Joe Stump Are You Ready The Agony House Of Mirrors The Milk Men The Operator Cros Sexy Girl Foo Fighters Rescued Lucinda Williams Stolen Moments Bison Hip […]
Alabama Mike Stuff I’ve Been Through Little Village Blues fans should recognize the name of blues vocalist Alabama Mike, as he has guested on Little Village and other label recordings in recent years. Nonetheless, for many, Stuff I’ve Been Through, his fourth album, may well be his coming out party. Despite the “Alabama” moniker, (Mike […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Billy Evanochko of Billy the Kid and the Regulators Billy the Kid and The Regulators are a high powered, guitar driven, rhythm and blues band based in Pittsburgh. Lead singer Billy Evanochko is widely-known across the Steel City for his impassioned lyrics, seductive vocals, and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Dean Zucchero Hailing originally from the streets of East Village, New York City, Zucchero cut his teeth in the bustling, industry-driven Manhattan music scene where songwriting and studio recording chops have long since been revered and rewarded. Cultivating these traits in the city’s local dive-bar and […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Tony Currenti of AC/DC Horselips Trouble with a Capital T Horselips Sword of Light Horselips I’ll be waiting Jamie Thyer Split Diamond Gancher &Ruin Epicentre Laurence Jones Lonley Road Ian Hunter Defiance plus Robert Trujillo & Slash The Answer California Rain Mystic […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Johnny Wheels Johnny Wheels is a singer / songwriter / harmonica player inspired by the soul of the Pacific Northwest. The “Swamp Donkeys” are Johnny’s band-mates who are inspired by Johnny to “live a song” on the edge. Johnny: “Nope! You won’t hear a song exactly the […]
Jimmy Bennett Sunday Morning Sessions Junkyard Dog Productions Sunday Morning Sessions is the gentle and unplugged side of the typically fiery guitarist Jimmy Bennett. You may recall Bennett was electric guitarist with The Bennett Brothers, Bruce Katz, John Ginty, and Alexis P. Suter albums on the American Showplace label under the late Ben Elliott to […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jason Stutts of Rust Dust Some artists are deliberate in what they do, while others eagerly accept the mystery of it all. Jason Stutts, who goes by Rust Dust on record, belongs to the latter group, allowing songs to take shape in mere minutes or over […]
Making a Scene Turns 9 Years Old! On May 1 2014 we launched Making a Scene as a web magazine that would support independent artists with Interviews, CD Reviews, Gear Reviews, Articles on Music Business as well as keeping a finger on the pulse of the Music Industry and informing the indie music community on […]
Making a Scene Brings you Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #192 with his Guest Gina Coleman of Misty Blues Andrea Dawson Fight Back Gwyn Ashton No More Dom Martin 12 Gauge Essenger Sanctum Eternal Rumour Raised On River Blues Mary Gantley Burning Love Elvis Presley I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water Robert […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Gina Coleman of Misty Blue Gina is a graduate of Williams College. She began singing in 1990 on a dare by her co-workers and hasn’t turned back since. She began performing in a duet, The Siblings. Gina shortly started her own duet, Cole-Connection, which […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Scott Ellison In addition to solo records and playing with other artists, Ellison has also penned songs that have appeared in such hit TV shows as Sister Sister, Eye on L.A., and the soap opera Santa Barbara, as well as the soundtrack to the Ben Affleck […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Weezil Malone Guitarist and singer Weezil Malone is virtually a blues institution in the Grand Rapids area, having performed and recorded for years, (40 years in 2019). He now surrounds himself with a stellar bunch of players, aka “the Rockin’est little band around” –the Weezil Malone […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ana Popovic Internationally renowned guitarist Ana Popovic has built her career on defining and describing, on her own terms, the essence of American music, simultaneously pushing limits, bending genres, and reinventing her music and herself with each new record. Not surprisingly, she can claim any number […]
Making a Scene Brings you Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #191 with his Guests Malone Silbun Ian Hunter I Hate Hate Ian Hunter Still Love Rock n’ Roll Whitesnake Don’t Break My Heart Again Toronto Is Broken Martyrs Jason Charles Miller The River Eternum Joy Hear Me Calling Shade I Can’t Sleep Steve […]
Blood, Sweat, & Tears What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? – Original Soundtrack Omnivore Now that we think about the question posed in the album title, it’s one that many of us have pondered, or in most cases, probably forgot about in the intervening years. Yet, those who lived through the brief […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Marcus Malone and Innes Silbun of Malone Sibun The UK based, Detroit soulful blues-rock star Marcus Malone teams up with explosive British blues rock guitarist Innes Sibun for a handful of warm up dates for a new band with familiar faces. The new band […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tony Holiday There’s something about Tony Holiday that draws people together. In fact, community has been at the core of Holiday’s young career from the beginning. Since relocating from Salt Lake City to Memphis in 2017, Holiday has been at the center of a soul blues […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #190 With his Guest Rosco Wilson of Rosco Levee and the Southern Slide The Beatles Get Back Greta Van Fleet Meeting The Master The Bluesbones I Cry The Plague Headline Gwyn Ashton By Your Side Johnny Larsen When You Smile Mystic Prophecy Unholy Hell […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Rosco Wilson of Rosco Levee and the Southern Slide Back in February of this year I attended The Broadstairs Blues Blast festival whose reputation had preceded it . All the amazing things I had heard were all true and then some some , one of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Big Harp George George Bisharat/Big Harp George is a San Francisco Bay Area blues singer, songwriter, and chromatic harmonica player. The chromatic, compared to the 10-hole diatonic more common to blues, has a distinctive voice, giving Big Harp George a jazzy and sophisticated sound. Big Harp […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Big Shoes Big Shoes Band is a Nashville-based Americana Roots SuperGroup comprised of Triple A Studio & Touring Pros with traditional influences including the legendary Little Feat, greats like B.B King, Ray Charles, The Allman Brothers’ Band and Bonnie Raitt into their fan-pleasing original compositions and tastefully-arranged covers in their critically acclaimed […]
Dustin Douglas & The Electric Gentlemen Black Leather Blues Mo Mojo Like many other regions that don’t receive national attention, northeast Pennsylvania has a vital music scene. This is the second artist (see also review on Mike Miz) that we’ve covered this week alone who hails from the area. Wilkes-Barre guitarist and emerging singer-songwriter Dustin […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ally Venable Texas blues-rock singer/songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire, Ally Venable, entertains wherever she goes. With her signature glitter dresses and black knee-high boots, Venable comes off of the ropes swinging dazzling crowds on tour or throughout the festival circuit. “Venable pulls off a stunner of gritty and/or […]
Making a Scene Brings you Turn it up With Gerry Casey and his Guest Marcus Bonfanti Delta Fuse Call The Conductor Ben Reel Hunter Bloodhound 1066 Void Chapter Our Time Is Now Ammotrack Blinded By The Light Deadwolff Heavy Rock n’Roll Anthony Gomes The Whiskey Made Me Do It Misty Blue Grip Your Soul Sari […]
Joe Krown Tribute Sledgehammer Blues Joe Krown played keyboards with many people who influenced him. When I first heard Krown he was the keyboardist for Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. Krown played alongside his band mate alto-saxophonist Eric Demmer. Krown’s last project was in a duo performance with Jason Ricci. Krown opens with an instrumental tribute to […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Marcus Bonfanti At first glance, Marcus Bonfanti seems to embody the time-honored archetype of the British rock and roll wild man. Raggedly coifed, lazily dressed, blessed with an intense stare that could frighten away a rattlesnake. If he were a few decades older, you could […]
Making a Scene Presents an interview with Danny Liston What do record mogul Ahmet Ertegun, blues legend Gregg Allman, and Grammy award-winning producer Jim Gaines have in common? They all played a significant role in the music that is truly Danny Liston. Growing up in the St. Louis Irish working class neighborhood known as Dogtown, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Skylar Rogers To be compared to icons of the music industry such as Tina Turner and Etta James is no mean feat when you have just dropped your debut album. Chicago native Skylar Rogers achieves that and so much more with her 2021 release ‘Firebreather’, and […]
Making a Scene Presents TURN IT UP with Gerry Casey Show #188 With his Guest Jackie Chambers of Girlschool Barbe Q Clara Rose Nobod’s Girl The Agony She Said Verity White Road To Nowhere The Hot Damn Dance Around Brave Rival Come Down Maid of Ace Made In England Joyann Parker Memphis MuddieBrooke Liverpool Guy […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Gayle Harrod Gayle Harrod is living proof that it’s never to late. She began her public singing career in 2011 at the age of 42 with the Soul and Blues band Triple Shot. Since then she has performed with Classic Rock and Blues band Blues Deluxe and the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Alastair Greene As Alastair Greene’s prolific and acclaimed career rounds the corner into a third decade, Greene arrives at a new, yet familiar destination. Following a 2018 live album that celebrated the 20th anniversary of his noteworthy Alastair Greene Band, the singer-songwriter/guitarist returns with an inspired […]
Making a Scene presents Turn it Up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Eddie Angel The RubyTuesdays Backlight Redemption I Am The Storm The Answer Oh Cherry Robbie Fulks Longhair Bluegrass Celldweller featuring Daedric End Of The World Saint Deamon Load Your Cannons Rebecca Downes Take Me Higher 2023 re mix Toronto Is Broken Drip […]
Big Harp George Cut My Spirit Loose Blues Mountain San Francisco blues singer, songwriter and chromatic harmonica player Big Harp George/George Bisharat returns with his fifth album, Cut My Spirit Loose. He features a cast of elite players, including guitarist Kid Andersen, Joe Kyle Jr. on bass, drummers June Core and Derrick D’Mar Martin, with […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents Gerry Casey’s interview with Eddie Angel Eddie Angel – captivating British guitar player, vocalist and songwriter. Charismatic personality, great showman and artist. Living in London. Having started his art expression with painting he moved on to guitar soon to be seen astounding people with his skills. Has since played […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The Rhythm Krewe Rhythm Krewe had its beginnings in 1990, when guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, Steve Zelman assembled a group of nine musicians to play some of the great blues, soul, and R&B music that had inspired them as young musicians, and to develop new original music that paid tribute […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Nick Schnebelen Nick Schnebelen – Multiple Blues Music Award Winner From 2018 to 2022, Nick Schnebelen and his band have been touring North America as the opening act for George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Nick clearly has the blues-rock power to fill that slot with regular […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #186 with Pat Lloyd of The Equals Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man Lynyrd Skynyrd Freebird Rolla Hey You Mystic Prophecy Hellriot Fontaines D.C. ‘Cello Song The Who with Isobel Griffiths Orchestra Imagine A Man Whitesnake Can You Hear The Wind […]
Big Shoes Fresh Tracks Qualified Fresh Tracks is the American Roots Supergroup Big Shoes’ follow-up to their acclaimed 2018 Step On It! Big Shoes originally formed as a “tribute project” to recreate the early music of the iconic band Little Feat, thus the name. As they developed it became evident that the group boasted good […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jeff Pitchell An internationally acclaimed dynamic singer, songwriter and guitarist, Jeff achieved national recognition when his album Heavy Hitter (Pyramid Records/EMI) reached #7 on the Billboard Charts, outselling Delbert McClinton, Robert Cray, Etta James, Johnny Lee Hooker & Muddy Waters. Jeff has recorded with such greats as J Geils, […]
Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia Blood Brothers Gulf Coast Records Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia’s dozens of individual albums all point to their first collaboration working as well as it does. Not to mention that they’re apparently good buddies. The title Blood Brothers encapsulates their bond and shared spirits ideally. Zito and Castiglia have long […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sister Lucille Hailing from Southwest Missouri and deeply inspired by the musical legacy of Memphis, Sister Lucille has turned the worlds of Blues, Roots and Soul on their collective head and created their own genre – Memphunk! The band’s musical genetics run wide and deep. From […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guests The Cosmic Trip Advisors Ally Venable/Buddy Guy Texas Louisiana Ian Hunter I Hate Hate The Heavy I FeelThe Love Misty Blue Where Your Blues Come From Laid Back Country Singer Lb Firewind Destiny Is Calling LA Guns You Betray Chris Duarte Nothing […]
Otis Taylor Banjo… PS Audio/Octave While Otis Taylor’s 15th album doesn’t bear the thematically driven title like his 2017 Fantasizing About Being Black, the more plainly titled Banjo… speaks to similar themes. Taylor says this about the album, where, in fact, only four of the eleven tunes feature him playing banjo – “This is not […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with The Cosmic Trip Advisors The Cosmic Trip Advisors hail from West Lothian in Scotland and are a rock ’n’ roll band with a heart of soul. Rock ’n’ Soul, if you will. In their world, Iggy can rub shoulders with Keef, Dolly can pinch […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Paul Filipowicz If they’re still standing at what should have been the end of the set list, it’s a signal to Filipowicz to crank out another hard-driving tune on one of his worn Fender guitars. But there is a softer side to the 66-year-old Chicago native […]
